Solar Sciences

The Sun in September 2016 By Frank Bosse and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated and edited by P Gosselin) Also last month the sun was relatively inactive. The observed sunspot number (SSN) was 44.7, which was just 64% of what is the average for the previously observed 23 cycles. The average cycle has a duration of 11 […]

What follows is a highly discomforting fact, and it’s not going to go away. ============================================ A small sensation goes unnoticed by the press: Solar activity indeed reached maximum value in late 20th century By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) Previously it was constantly claimed that solar activity couldn’t […]

German skeptic site wobleibtdieerderwaermung.de writes here on the upcoming Europe fall/winter and the unfavorable solar situation. What follows are some excerpts. ==================================== Cold North Atlantic – weak sun: Icy 100-year winter 2016/17 like 1962/63? In the first months of 2016, the North Atlantic has been significantly colder that the comparable El Niño year of 1998, and […]

The sun in July 2016, and the AMO By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) Our sole relevant source of energy at the center of our solar system was quieter than normal in July for our current solar cycle (SC) 24. The entire cycle so far has only been 56% as active […]

The sun in May and June 2016 By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) Our sun in May was normally active for the cycle. The mean sunspot number (SSN) was 52.1, which was 2/3 of the mean value for month number 90 into the cycle. The mean is calculated from the previously […]

The daily Berliner Kurier here writes today that solar physicists at the ultra-warmist Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) are warning that Europe may be facing “a mini ice age” due to a possible protracted solar minimum. Solar activity has been much lower than predicted earlier. Credit: D. Hathaway/NASA/MSFC The Berliner Kurier writes: That’s the conclusion […]

German meteorological site wobleibtdieerderwaermung.de here presents the latest developments on surface temperatures. Today I’m focused on the part dealing with the rapidly declining global temperature (TLT). ===================================================== Cold June spell about to hit Europe – more heavy summer rains in 2016 will lead to more flooding. By Schneefan (Translated, edited by P Gosselin) The current […]

Snowfan at wobleibtdieerderwärmung.de features a spotless sun and quite possibly the start of cooling now that the planet is well past the peak of the recent El Niño event. What follows are some excerpts, with some editing to shorten the text to save a little time. ============================ The sun goes on strike: First spotless day […]

Looking at the English-language media, one might be led to think that the latest CERN experimental results show that trees alone dominate cloud formation, by supplying the necessary cloud seeding medium. Little reference is made to cosmic rays acting as the cloud formation modulator, initiating the cloud seeding process, as hypothesized by Henrik Svensmark. Lubos […]

The Sun in April 2016 By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated, edited by P Gosselin) The sun in April also was quiet in what has been so far a relatively calm solar cycle (SC). The sunspot number (SSN) was 38.0, which is 50% of what is typically normal for month no. 89 into a solar […]

Sea Level Prediction By David Dilley – Global Weather Oscillations As many are familiar, the warm peak of the interglacial cycle occurred about 7 thousand years ago, with progressively cooler 1,500 year warming cycles since then as the earth trends toward the next long-term glacial period. Figure 1: Temperature of the Holocene Period. Because the […]

The following is the solar part of the latest post at Die kalte Sonne. =================================================== The Sun in March 2016 By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated, edited by P Gosselin) Our mother star was once again less active than normal in March. The observed solar sunspot number (SSN) was 54.9, which was about 2/3 […]

The Sun in February 2016 By Frank Bosse und Fritz Vahrenholt Translated/edited by P Gosselin In February 2016 the sun was well below normal in activity, just as was the case for the previous several months. The observed sunspot number (SSN) was 57.2. The mean of previous cycles 1 to 23 for this month into […]

A reader has brought my attention to more new papers. I haven’t found any mention of them at other sites like WUWT. Perhaps they aren’t able to get through the Gate of Willis. At any rate, just because I choose to bring them up, it doesn’t necessarily mean that I agree with them. I do […]

The more CO2-obsessed climate scientists deny the sun’s powerful role in driving climate, the more that other serious scientists are finding out that it is in fact truly The Dominant Player in climate. The Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestial Physics here has a recent paper where scientists have found a “significant relation” between sunspots and El […]

The Sun in January 2016! By Frank Bosse and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) The largest mass of our solar system (99.8% of the total mass) was also rather quiet in January. The determined solar sunspot number (SSN) was 56.6, which is 71% of the mean this far into the period, calculated using […]

Solar activity in December by Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) The central star of our solar system was quite inactive last month. The measured solar sunspot number (SSN) was 57.7. That is only 79% of what is the average for this time point into a solar cycle compared to the mean […]

The Sun in November 2015 By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) In November our sun was once again below normal in activity. The 84th month since the current solar cycle started in December 2008 saw a solar sunspot number (SSN) of 63.2, which was 72% of what is the mean for month […]

German Professor Fritz Vahrenholt and Frank Bosse present the solar report for October 2015. The current cycle continues to be a weak one. ======================================= The Sun in October 2015 By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt [Translated/edited by P Gosselin] In October, 2015, our mother star was less active than in September. The solar sunspot number […]

Climate change on Mars – is it analogous to that on Earth? By Dr. Dietrich E. Koelle [Translated/edited by P Gosselin] Fig. 1: Structure of the Milky Way (Wikipedia, NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt) Drawing conclusions on the development of the Earth’s climate from climate change on Mars would be quite difficult because there is no concrete data from […]